How to Setup NordVPN in Linux

Download Beamtic's connecter for NordVPN (Source included), and follow the instructions in this tutorial.

Using NordVPN in Linux is actually not very hard at all. It does lack the convenient GUI we know from Windows, but connecting from the terminal is fairly straight forward.

We created a console app, which may make it even easier to use NordVPN in Linux. The app works by showing you a list of VPN servers, you can then connect to a server by typing the number of the server, and hitting enter. The app then opens a terminal window, and automatically enters the command to connect.

1: Start by installing the OpenVPN client from a terminal, as you will need it regardless of which method you use from this tutorial. You may install OpenVPN by entering the following command in a terminal:

sudo apt-get install openvpn

2: Then Download NordVPN server configuration files, and unzip them in: /etc/openvpn – do this from a terminal: